Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-28
of visitors on which nearly the whole
prosperity of those places depends.

+ visitors on which nearly the whole
of those places depends.
Now, what is there in the elements
f success in this line in which Los
ANGELES is lacking? A very large
proportion of the people who visit
hese European pleasure resorts
'ear after year are Americans.
The United States is no longer
scattered population of struggling peo-
pie who win living from the wilder
ness in fierce fight with the savage
forces of unsubdued nature. We
have long since developed from that
primitive stage in our progress. The
American Union, to-day contains up
wards of sixty millions of people, and
no similar number anywhere else is
one-half SO prosperous as we are.
There are among the citizens OF the
Great Republic more people, three to
one, who can afford to take a tour OF
pleasure than there are in any other
nation on earth. As to the negative
side of the proposition, We have an
advantage far above that held by
France or Italy. England is good
country to get out of in the winter;
but the Isle of Wright, nor even
the bleak hills of Scotland,
will not compare in climatic severity
with the winters in our northern
States; or for that matter with the
weather of the entire country east OF
the Rocky mountains. Florida might
for few months be comparable to
the extreme south of England.
In our own South California climate
we have an endowment the richest
with which nature ever blessed re-
gion. Ours is as nearly perfect as a
climate could we'll De. Mild in tenn
pc rature, sunny in character, dry for
three hundred and fifty days in the
year, nights and days differing but lit
tie in their extremes of temperature
every element combines to make ours
an ideal climate. For invalids it is
confessedly unrivalled. Naples is
acknowledged to be the very
best climate in Europe, and ours
is said by those who know to equal
that in any element, and to surpass it
in many. That the eastern part of
America is productive Of diseases, or
ganic and otherwise needs no proof.
And whether visitors come here for
pleasure or health, they come to a
land under their own flag, to people
of their own language, of similar hab-
its and manners to those they leave at
their home fireside, to place where
they can.worship at the same altars,
and send their children to the same
schools they attended the day before
they set out to California.
But why prolong a discussion which
admits OF no contradiction. Yesterday
twenty-five hundred people came into
our city by trains from all parts of the
Union. The coming winter is ex-
pected to bring one hundred thousand
from first to last. New towns are
growing with mushroom rapidity,
but with rock-like stability. In each
fine hotels are built or being built,
and still all the houses in the land are
full of people. Bad climate and poor
health, as the result OF extremes
of weather in the East, compared
with our matchless temperature,
bright skies and dry weather are the
reasons for this higera from all sections
OF the union to this. 1t has but be-
gun. 1t will grow and increase to
tremendous head, and it will hold its
own for q generation, for a cycle, to
come. We have not enough towns
yet, nor enough hotels yet, and We
will have to be content to 60 on build
ing more for a long time before the
point of rest is reached.